At CES this year, there was one thing I was more excited to see than anything else: a robot I’ve been waiting to meet for almost three years. A little like a penguin, a little like a sloth, Lovot is a companion robot with big googly eyes and an even bigger AI-powered heart. It’s designed …

With its heritage of top TVs and notable audio equipment, Sony never misses a chance to show off its latest wares at the world’s biggest tech show, CES in Las Vegas. Unlike many other tech giants, Sony doesn’t pre-announce its new CES offerings, giving us no hint what to expect ahead of its Monday night press conference. But rather than …

Chinese tech company Huawei isn’t exactly flavor of the month in the US right now. Between the arrest of its chief financial officer, the company’s inability to offer most of its devices stateside and the government’s repeated security warnings about its equipment, the US is not fertile ground for the world’s No. 2 phone maker to continue growing its market share. …

Fix your peepers on this, twitchers. You might think you know what a pair of binoculars looks like — how they work has pretty much stayed the same since the 17th century, after all. But avert your gaze to this 21st century take on magnifying eye equipment to see what’s possible when you bring digital technology into the picture. Built …

“Alexa, go next door and check if I left my glasses by the bed.” This is just one of many potential tasks a robot with both Amazon’s virtual assistant and autonomous navigation skills could take on in your home. It sounds appealing, right? Robotics company Robotemi announced at CES on Monday that it’s bringing Alexa to its Temi robot, which …

Italy’s Competition Authority on Friday slapped Facebook with two fines that total 10 million euros ($11.4M) for using people’s data for commercial purposes in ways that break the country’s laws. Italy issued the first fine after deciding that the social network persuaded people to register for accounts on the platform without informing them during the signup process that their data …

Facebook isn’t just a social network for posting vacation photos or cat videos. It’s a multibillion dollar ad business. On Wednesday, internal Facebook emails and documents released by UK lawmakers provided a rare glimpse into the methods the social network explored to make money from the user data it’s collected over the years from all of our activity on it. …

Learning to read is a time-consuming and complex process for any kiddo, but the 32 million deaf children in the world face an extra challenge. They must learn how to interpret the words they see on the page without using the sound-based phonics system that most school children rely upon or being able to hear a teacher or parent repeat …

The UK may release documents “within the next week” about Facebook’s knowledge of Russian interference on the social network, a member of Parliament said Tuesday. The documents may contain evidence that Facebook knew about the issue as early as 2014. Parliament seized the documents over the weekend from the founder of app development company Six4Three while he was visiting London. …

Lawmakers from nine parliaments around the world met Tuesday in London to discuss the problem of disinformation on Facebook. But one seat at the table remained starkly vacant. Behind the nameplate “Mark Zuckerberg” was an empty chair. Zuckerberg declined repeated invitations to attend the inaugural session of the International Grand Committee on Disinformation, which took place at the UK’s Parliament. …